My LOST Moment

Emily, 20 – Marlton (New Jersey, USA) :

My Lost moment was when Richard and Jack are inside the Black Rock discussing how Jacob gave Richard a gift. Jack has just been to the Lighthouse, where he saw that Jacob had been watching him for his entire life. Richard asks Jack to help him kill himself and begins to explain his life to Jack. He tells Jack how Jacob gave him a “gift” that has become his curse. The show took on an entirely new meaning to me when Richard says “I devoted my life longer than you can possibly imagine, in service of a man who told me that everything was happening for a reason, that he had a plan, a plan that I was a part of. And when the time was right, that he’d share it with me. And now that man’s gone, so I want to kill myself Jack, because I just found out that my entire life had no purpose.” Not only did I feel even more connected to the show than ever, but I began to think about my own life and the people in it.

Alanna, 17 – Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) :

I love this episode solely for the ending. Seeing Sun in the bathing suit, uncovered for the first time on the island, had a freeing feeling. She was breaking free of the bonds held by her culture and husband, and I loved it. I love Sun as a character, and this small step confirmed to me that she had a fight in her.
I have been a Lost fan for a long time now. I enjoy the show, and I love the questions it presents.

Silvia, 21 – California (USA) :

This is definitely one of my many favorite Lost moments! Just the way Ben’s voice gets all shaky and serious when he’s explaining to Juliet why he asked Goodwin to join the camp group knowing he would be killed, then the eerie tone in his voice when he yells “YOU’RE MINE!“. He acts like a child who always wants his way… except he’s far more dangerous and evil!
Also, not to mention the way he can becomes so angry and emotional then just wipes all emotions from his face and calmy says “Take as much time as you need” then proceeds to turn and skip off into the distance [laughs]… It gives me goosebumps. It seems as if it his way of being romantic, but in a very twisted and evil way. Michael Emerson is an amazing actor and one of my favorite characters on the show.

Steven, 20, bookstore clerk – Phoenix (Arizona, USA) :

When Hurley, Jack, and Kate stepped out of the Dharma van into the orientation process of joining the Dharma Initiative, it finally hit me. Anything is possible. Imagine putting so much of yourself into understanding something, to then go off and actually experience it. Imagine reading the works of Plato, and then going and having a conversation with him. As their feet hit the ground after stepping out from the van, I was hit with a huge sense of envy on their part. If only we could experience everything. If only we could see both sides of everything. This is what the show is and has always been to me. Dualism. Relativism. Life.

Gideon, 21 – Athens (Georgia, USA) :

I came in a little bit late to Lost (I watched seasons 1 and 2 before season 3 aired), so I had already been spoiled for a majority of the twists and deaths. But in “Exposé”, an episode widely panned by a majority of viewers, came two deaths that I wasn’t spoiled for. I actually enjoyed “Exposé”, it reminded me of old Twilight Zone episodes I used to watch on Thanksgiving weekend with my dad. It was little bit of CSI: Lost and a little bit Twilight Zone, with Billie Dee Williams thrown in to give it a bit of class.
The twist ending of the episode, where Nikki and Paulo are buried alive, gave me chills. Every single time I see that scene, it gives me chills. The entire episode is a build up to this moment, when you realize that Nikki and Paulo aren’t dead, but just paralyzed, and these two characters that we have loved for two and half seasons, Hurley and Sawyer, are about to bury these hated newcomers alive. Nikki’s eyes flying open, and knowing that she knows that she’s dead, but unable to do anything is a perfect shot. Giacchino’s score is perfectly suited to the morbid end, building and building as Hurley and Sawyer pile more and more sand on the grave of the living. When the gravediggers pick up their shovels and walk away, Lost does the same to the viewer, forcing the shock and pulling no punches.

Randy, 20 – Kansas City (Missouri, USA) :

Three years after the Losties left the island, we are in a church where there is a room in the back. In this room we meet Elderly Eloise. Later we find out that it is Daniel’s mother. Surprise! She talks about finding the island and going back. At first I thought she was crazy and I wondered to myself how in the world she could know all this stuff.
Then, after many episodes of travelling through time we end up with a small group of people handling a very large bomb. One of those group members was a 20 or so year old blonde girl. Halfway through the episode she states that her name is Elly.
That moment was infinite for me, I pieced it together instantly that Ely was Eloise when she was younger. She became my favorite character of the show after that, for reasons I still do not know of.